State v. . Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1975 · most notably TINDER, PROS. ATTY. v. Music Op. Inc. (1957), State v. . Gregory (1943)
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gaither v. Cate · State v. . Humphries · McCormick v. . Proctor · Rankin v. Mills Novelty Co. · 10 Smith & H. 627 - Painter v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The indictment strictly follows the words of the statute, and that is laid down in all the authorities as the true and safe rule. It is true there are some few exceptions, but we do not think they embrace this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. . Gregory
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.